Generally, the British did not have much interest in the
resource-barren region. They principally viewed the protectorate as
a source for supplies of meat for their British Indian outpost in
Aden. Hence,
the region's nickname of "Aden's butcher's shop".

Mad
Mullah

From 1899, the British were forced to expend considerable human
and military capital in a bloody struggle to contain a decades-long
resistance movement led by the Somali religious leader SayyidMohammed Abdullah Hassan.
Referred to colloquially by the British as the Mad Mullah,
repeated expeditions were unsuccessfully launched against Hassan
and his men before World
War I.

By 1920, they had launched their fifth and final expedition against Hassan
and his followers. Employing the then-new technology of military
aircraft for the first time ever in Africa, the British finally
managed to quell Hassan's twenty year-long struggle.

In March 1941, British Somaliland was recaptured by British and
Commonwealth
forces during "Operation Appearance". The final remnants of Italian guerilla
movement discontinued all resistance in British Somaliland by
the summer of 1942.

Somaliland

In 1991, after the breakdown of the central government of the
Somali Republic, parts of the area which formerly encompassed
British Somaliland declared independence. In May 1991, the
formation of the "Republic of Somaliland" was proclaimed, with the
local government regarding it as the successor to the former
British Somaliland. However, the Somaliland region's self-declared
independence remains unrecognized by
any country or international organization.[2][3]

11Dependencies of St. Helena since
1922 (Ascension Island) and 1938 (Tristan da Cunha)12Occupied by Argentina during the Falklands War of
April–June 198213Both claimed in 1908; territories
formed in 1962 (British Antarctic Territory) and 1985 (South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)